Collide
Collide Capital’s mission is to guide founders on their institutional capital journey and equip them with resources, knowledge networks, and hands-on operational support for a successful exit.
Our Portfolio
Collide
Collide Capital’s mission is to guide founders on their institutional capital journey and equip them with resources, knowledge networks, and hands-on operational support for a successful exit.
Hear from our portfolio
"When I think about great investment partners I think of dynamic thinkers, a willingness to truly support the entrepreneur, emotional stability, and conviction! The Collide team is all this and more."
Eugene Johnson
"Collide Capital is the superstar fund for championing founders. Aaron and Brian are building a new vision for VC that's truly about rising together."
Trinity Mouzon Wofford
"Through the ups and downs of fundraising, brand building, recruiting, networking, and mentorship, Collide has always been one of our go-to resources and most helpful investors."
Garry Cooper
"The Collide team brings deep and complimentary experience to the table from both the operating and investing worlds. Even more, they are hungry and clearly willing to do whatever it takes to make their companies successful."
Alex Sambvani
"The ability to combine founder operation experiences with investments makes a huge difference. As founders, we always love to hear more than "strategies" but some firsthand experiences we can resonate with."
Winston Chi
About Us
We believe that exceptional founding teams will be intersectional in nature and more importantly, will demand that their investors be equivalently so.
Underrepresented founders leading Collide's portfolio companies
Companies backed
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Black-owned firm
Our Team
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Brian & Aaron
Aaron and Brian met at AfroTech in 2016 and began investing together. They believe capital should be awarded to founders best positioned to solve the next generation of global challenges.Letter From Our Founders
Our investors
At Collide Capital, we partner with leaders across big tech, philanthropy, venture capital, and academia to drive capital to our portfolio companies.
Our Portfolio
Collide Capital is ushering in a new era of venture capital where resources and opportunities are directed toward the most deserving by backing a high-performing portfolio led by a diverse array of founding teams who have the lived experiences, courage, and grit to create solutions for the next generation. Collide Capital invests in early-stage companies from pre-seed to Series A, with a focus on founders building transformational enterprise SaaS, sustainable supply chain, and consumer technology businesses.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Pitch us here. A member of the Investment team reviews all inbound pitches and we will reach out if we believe you a good fit within our thesis.
Collide Capital invests in early-stage companies from pre-seed to Series A, with a focus on founders building in fintech, supply chain, and future of work. We believe the next generation of category-defining companies will be forged through collision – of culture and code, of policy and product, and of perspectives too often overlooked by capital. And we believe in founders who are relentlessly tactical, deeply connected to the problem they’re solving and unafraid to build in the face of doubt.
Not at this time. Please reach out to investors@collidecap.com to learn about future investment opportunities and subscribe to our newsletter to stay informed.
Collide Capital founders Aaron Samuels and Brian Hollins built two of the largest Black tech ecosystems, AfroTech and BLCK VC, to connect under-networked and overlooked communities to institutional resources. With an oversubscribed Fund II and over $170M AUM, they seek to invest in the most innovative and hard-working founders solving the next generation of global challenges. At their core, Aaron and Brian understand the power that community has to create opportunity. Learn more by reading the Letter From Our Founders.
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